DOJ to white wash investigate warrantless surveillance program

Maybe I'm just overly suspicious, but something sure seems fishy about this to me:

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department's internal watchdog said Monday it has opened an investigation into the agency's use of information gathered in the government's warrantless surveillance program.

About six months ago, Bush personally refused to grant security clearances to a similar group from the DOJ. Low and behold, now that the Dem's are coming into power he's granting security clearances to a group that previously said it didn't have jurisdiction over the program.

Is this a way to white wash the program? Is it an excuse to stall on Congressional investigations? I haven't quite figured it out, but they're not doing this because they're good guys.

Even more evidence of fishiness is the fact that it was reported first by Faux News.